Chapter 1033 1124 Final Offensive and Defensive Battle

Chapter 1033 1124 Final Offensive and Defensive Battle

"Come with me."

Wang Wanggao was eager to make a contribution, so he led his men and chased them northeast. Men Chongwen led the Ming army and some of the servants recruited locally followed closely behind.

The remaining more than a thousand local servants were taken over by Deng Zilong and were immediately sent to patrol the streets controlled by the Ming army to prevent any more people from leaving their homes and gathering crowds to attack the city gates.

After learning this lesson, Deng Zilong no longer dared to be careless.

Wang Wanggao and his men quickly rushed to the gap between the Ming army and the Yi people's barracks. This place was not actually spacious, but there were people guarding the barracks on both sides day and night. In fact, if you wanted to pass through here unnoticed, It's not easy.

However, when Wang Wanggao and his people arrived here, they saw a few corpses scattered on the ground, including those of servants, others obviously dressed as pirates, and even two corpses of Ming soldiers.

Obviously, the opponent has already rushed through here. How can a small flag of soldiers and horses stop so many fleeing pirates?

"How long have they been here? How many people are there?"

Arriving in front of the fence of the Ming army camp, Wang Wanggao shouted and asked.

There were also local servants brought by soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in the military camp, but they no longer dared to rush out of the military camp to meet the enemy and could only stick to the camp.

Seeing the Ming army arriving, Xiaoqi, the leader, stepped forward quickly and replied through the fence: "Sir, hundreds of pirates suddenly appeared here about half a stick of incense, trying to rush out.

The brothers patrolling outside the camp have worked very hard, but we are outnumbered and cannot stop them at all.

The villain can only manage to survive in the camp with his own soldiers, not allowing them to come in and steal the camp, and also send people to ask for help from the Chinese army."

"Then which direction did they go?"

Wang Wanggao didn't want to say anything and asked directly.

Originally, the main forces were now devoted to the siege, and the military camp was empty of troops. Even if the news reached Yu Dayou, I am afraid that more troops would not be able to come to support.

After all, just behind the Ming army's camp, there are still grain and grass supplies that need to be guarded, and the remaining thousands of people there must not move.

"They went in that direction."

The little flag stretched out his hand and pointed in a direction. In fact, no matter how he pointed, there was a small river there.

However, after Wang Wangao knew the general direction, he immediately led the people to chase in that direction.

When these defeated soldiers were still hesitating whether to open the side door and go out to collect the corpses of their comrades, another fire dragon swam over from a distance.

Similar to the conversation just now, Men Chongwen simply asked about the escape direction of the pirates who broke out, and then led his men and horses to pursue them there.

After the soldiers and horses led by Men Chongwen passed by, the flag officer regained his composure, kicked a servant soldier next to him on the butt, and shouted: "If you don't go open the door immediately, help the brothers collect the corpses, you haven't ordered it yet." Good eyesight.”

Just now, he was worried that there would be pirates rushing over or that group of pirates would fight back, but now he was no longer afraid. After two teams of soldiers and horses passed, the possibility of pirates appearing later was very low.

Lu Song, who was kicked, was not angry about it. Instead, he playfully counted the words of Lu Song that the flag officer could not understand. With a flattering look, he ran over and opened the small door of the military camp, and then greeted the others to follow him. Go out and collect those bodies.

At this moment, a fast horse came from the military camp, followed by more than a hundred Ming troops.

"Commander."

Seeing the person coming, Xiaoqi hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

"Get up, you said some Japanese pirates rushed out from here. Let me ask you, how many of them are there? Do you know who took the lead? How long has it been?"

It was Yu Dayou, the navy commander of the South China Sea, who came over. He had not received the report from Tortoiseshell City, but he only heard news from someone in the military camp that there were pirates breaking out outside Dongying.

Hearing this, Yu Dayou instinctively felt bad.

However, at this time, he was more concerned about whether the pirates on the east gate saw that there was nothing they could do, opened the city gate and fled.

But no matter what the situation, he had to come over and see for himself and ask what was going on.

Like Deng Zilong's worries, Yu Dayou also subconsciously believed that among the escaped Japanese pirates, Lin Feng's fellow was likely to be among them.

"Commander, there are two to three hundred pirates in that group. We are alone and there is really no way to stop them."

Xiaoqi wanted to continue talking, but Yu Dayou interrupted him rudely and said: "How long has it been and which direction did they go."

The little flag official didn't dare to say anything when he was interrupted, so he hurriedly repeated what he had just said.

Just when Yu Dayou was about to chase after him on horseback, the little flag officer was quite clever and immediately said: "Two adults have already led troops to chase after him."

"Who brought the soldiers and horses?"

Yu Dayou was stunned. There were no troops to send in the camp now, and he had not arranged for anyone to lead troops to pursue him. Who was going?

"The one in the front is from Baihu, and the one in the back seems to be General Chongwen of our sect."

Xiaoqi didn't know Wang Wanggao, but Men Chongwen still knew. After all, there were only so many generals in the military camp, and it was not like he had never seen them before during training.

Even if it was Yu Dayou, he actually had no chance to appear in front of him, but he had seen him when he was patrolling the military camp, and he would remember him as soon as he was told who he was.

When Yu Dayou heard the words, he immediately made a general guess.

It was probably when this group of pirates broke out of Tortoiseshell City that they were discovered by Men Chongwen and others, so they sent troops to pursue them.

Since you have already gone, Yu Dayou naturally does not need to continue to go there. He just said to the small flag lightly: "Clean up here and report the news to the central army tent in time."

"Yes."

The small flag officer hurriedly bowed his head and replied.

"Get up and guard the camp well."

Yu Dayou said the last sentence and went to the central army tent with more than a hundred personal soldiers.

It is useless to stay here. It is better to go back and take command at the center.

The battle reports of all parties must be sent there first. If he is not there, it will easily lead to the army without command.

So if he knows that someone is chasing the fleeing pirates, he doesn't need to follow them.

He has no choice but to come here in person. Now most of the generals in the camp have been sent to the direction of Daimao City, and the rest are commanding the navy fleet at sea. There are no soldiers or generals around him.

When he returned to the central army tent, he also received an urgent war report sent by Deng Zilong, including the progress of the current attack and defense of Daimao City and the news that a group of pirates successfully escaped from Daimao City due to his negligence.

At the end of the war report, Deng Zilong also wrote his own judgment, that is, Lin Feng is very likely among these pirates, because the news sent back by Chen Lin before also said that Lin Feng’s mansion was empty and no one was inside.

Moreover, there should be a mechanism in the mansion to blow up several Ming soldiers who were searching for survivors.

After the explosion, it was suspected that someone set fire to many places in the city, creating greater chaos.

Yu Dayou saw this and slapped his forehead.

As a veteran, he basically understood Lin Feng’s plan.

Obviously, Lin Fengchun’s secret contact with them was probably detected by Lin Feng in advance. The other party may just be uncertain about the time, but has made full preparations.

Now, what Yu Dayou needs to judge is whether Lin Feng's next plan is to wander around the northern part of Luzon Island or something else.

Given the current situation, it is very unlikely that Lin Feng will leave Luzon. All his warships have been destroyed by the barbarians. Without transportation, he has no way to leave here.

Unless

In an instant, Yu Dayou felt as if he had guessed something.

Although it was different from the actual situation, at this time, based on the known information alone, he was sure that Lin Feng had hidden his warships somewhere in the northern part of Luzon.

He didn't know that Lin Feng was planning to use a small boat to sneak out of Luzon, and the big ship was indeed gone.

"Alas"

Yu Dayou sighed, even if he guessed it, it would be in vain if he didn't know where Lin Feng's warships were hidden.

The sea was vast, even if he immediately sent a message to Wang Zhao and others on the sea, the Ming Dynasty's South China Sea Navy could not allocate troops to patrol the sea and intercept the pirates fleeing out to sea.

At this time, the Ming army in the city was advancing faster. As many places in the city caught fire, the pirates who were still resisting were also worried about their families in the city.

In addition, the long period of time without Lin Feng's orders made the pirate leaders everywhere feel worried.

Yes, those who can be leaders are not stupid people.

The stupid people have long been killed in the repeated purges within the pirates.

After not seeing Lin Feng for so long, everyone naturally has a question, that is, where is the big boss now?

So, a kind of speculation inevitably appeared in the pirate group and spread.

With such an idea, it is undoubtedly extremely fatal to the pirates who are still struggling to persist.

Before, they could fight to the death, but now there began to be surrendered soldiers. Seeing that there was nowhere to escape, they chose to put down their weapons and surrender.

Of course, at the beginning, only the small pirates surrendered, and the leaders had not completely given up at this time.

After all, the city of Tortoiseshell is not big, but not small. Maybe the big boss did not come here, but went somewhere else.

However, when the remaining pirates were squeezed out of the east gate and could only retreat to the south wall, the remaining pirate leaders gathered together and found that Lin Feng was really not there.

"Where is the big boss? Who has seen him?"

"Has anyone seen the boss Lin? If you have seen him, please say something."

While the Ming army paused in their attack and readjusted their forces, the leaders gathered together to talk about this topic.

But after shouting for a long time, no one responded.

"No one saw him?"

"No, other places have been occupied by the Ming army. Where else can the boss go if he doesn't retreat to the south city?"

"The city lord's mansion exploded before. The boss didn't die with the Ming army, right?"

"Impossible, I pushed it out from there. When the Ming army came, the boss's mansion never opened the door and no one came out.

At that time, the boss could have evacuated with us. We knocked on the door for a long time but it didn't open."

A leader who retreated from the city center spoke up. He was also Lin Feng's confidant, but at this moment he felt that everyone looked at him in a wrong way.

In the past, in front of other people, those who claimed to be confidants walked with their heads held high.

But now, the boss is gone, so who should they rely on?

After a commotion, everyone quickly stopped.

They have realized that Lin Feng is either dead or has escaped through channels they don't know.

If someone was captured by the Ming army, they would never let go of the opportunity. They would take Lin Feng to the front of the battle and ask them to surrender.

After all, the big bosses were captured by the enemy, and the morale of their subordinates would be more or less affected.

In fact, even now, because Lin Feng has not shown up for a long time, some of his subordinates have suspected that the big boss has abandoned them and ran away.

The remaining pirates who are now hiding in the South Gate are really leaderless.

However, at this time, the people here are obviously divided into two factions, one of which is naturally Lin Feng’s former confidants, and the other is other people.

Just as the situation in the field gradually became tense, the sound of "bang bang bang" of the Ming army's artillery suddenly came from the left and right sides of the south wall.

"Damn, the dog officer has started to attack again."

"Let's hold on to this offensive first."

Soon, the leaders of the various families gathered on the tower dispersed to the left and right, and each went to find their own men to prepare to resist the attack of the Ming army.

Now there are not many pirates left, only more than a thousand people, and the others are either dead or disabled, and can only wail on the ground in pain.

The Ming army didn't care about the life and death of these people, so they just let them lie there and fend for themselves.

In the offensive and defensive battle here, one team was led by Chen Lin, who went directly from the east gate to the south gate.

The other team was led by Deng Zilong. After arranging the defenses in various parts of the city, he went around the west gate and directly reached the front line.

"Set up the artillery fire for me."

When he encountered a desperate resistance from pirates again, Deng Zilong ordered without hesitation.

Several Portuguese cannons were raised and fired rapidly at the pirates on the opposite side.

The gunners moved quickly and quickly fired all the cartridges, then moved the cannons back to the back and continued to load ammunition.

With the fierce artillery attack of the Ming army, the formations of the pirates who resisted were already not tight and were bombarded to pieces.

With the three-stage bird gun bombardment, the pirate defense line immediately became riddled with holes and shaky.

At this time, Deng Zilong decisively ordered the Sulu soldiers to charge and directly break through the opponent's formation.

This was also the result of his previous discussion with the city. The Ming army had the advantage of sharp firearms, so they naturally had to maximize it.

Use firearms to break the opponent's defense, and then let the Sulu soldiers charge, their casualties will be minimal.

As for why the Ming army did not climb the wall, in fact, the Sulu soldiers themselves knew that the Ming army was too small, and they could only rely on firearms.

Close combat, it seems that the navy is really not good at it.

Although boarding battles often break out in naval battles, warships are equipped with small and medium-sized falconets, bird guns and arrows, and even primitive grenades such as thunder bombs on some large ships.

The Ming Dynasty has begun to study blooming bombs, and thunder bombs and ten thousand enemies have also appeared at the same time.

Blooming bombs are easy to understand. The shells are hollowed out, filled with gunpowder and iron stones, and there are fuses outside. The fuse is ignited by explosion and flies in front of the enemy to explode.

Thunder bombs and ten thousand enemies are both grenades, but the difference is that ten thousand enemies are heavy grenades, which are mostly used in city defense battles, and soldiers throw them down from the top of the city.

Because of its heavy weight, it can't be thrown far.

The thunder bomb is slightly smaller and can be thrown a certain distance.

With these weapons, the Ming army's close combat really deteriorated gradually, almost to the point of being useless.